RStudio Cheat Sheets

The cheat sheets below make it easy to learn about and use some of our favorite packages. From time to time, we will add new cheat sheets to the gallery. If you’d like us to drop you an email when we do, let us know by clicking the button to the right.

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Tidy Evaluation with rlang Cheat Sheet

Tidy Evaluation (Tidy Eval) is a framework for doing non-standard evaluation in R that makes it easier to program with tidyverse functions. Non-standard evaluation, better thought of as “delayed evaluation,” lets you capture a user’s R code to run later in a new environment or against a new data frame. The tidy evaluation framework is implemented by the rlang package and used by functions throughout the tidyverse. Updated 11/18.

Deep Learning with Keras Cheat Sheet

Keras is a high-level neural networks API developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. Keras supports both convolution based networks and recurrent networks (as well as combinations of the two), runs seamlessly on both CPU and GPU devices, and is capable of running on top of multiple back-ends including TensorFlow, CNTK, and Theano. Updated 12/17.

Dates and Times Cheat Sheet

Lubridate makes it easier to work with dates and times in R. This lubridate cheatsheet covers how to round dates, work with time zones, extract elements of a date or time, parse dates into R and more. The back of the cheatsheet describes lubridate’s three timespan classes: periods, durations, and intervals; and explains how to do math with date-times. Updated 12/17.

Work with Strings Cheat Sheet

The stringr package provides an easy to use toolkit for working with strings, i.e. character data, in R. This cheatsheet guides you through stringr’s functions for manipulating strings. The back page provides a concise reference to regular expresssions, a mini-language for describing, finding, and matching patterns in strings. Updated 10/17.

Apply Functions Cheat Sheet

The purrr package makes it easy to work with lists and functions. This cheatsheet will remind you how to manipulate lists with purrr as well as how to apply functions iteratively to each element of a list or vector. The back of the cheatsheet explains how to work with list-columns. With list columns, you can use a simple data frame to organize any collection of objects in R. Updated 09/17.

Data Import Cheat Sheet

The Data Import cheat sheet reminds you how to read in flat files with http://readr.tidyverse.org/, work with the results as tibbles, and reshape messy data with tidyr. Use tidyr to reshape your tables into tidy data, the data format that works the most seamlessly with R and the tidyverse. Updated 01/17.

Data Transformation Cheat Sheet

dplyr provides a grammar for manipulating tables in R. This cheat sheet will guide you through the grammar, reminding you how to select, filter, arrange, mutate, summarise, group, and join data frames and tibbles. (Previous version) Updated 01/17.

Sparklyr Cheat Sheet

Sparklyr provides an R interface to Apache Spark, a fast and general engine for processing Big Data. With sparklyr, you can connect to a local or remote Spark session, use dplyr to manipulate data in Spark, and run Spark’s built in machine learning algorithms. Updated 01/17.

R Markdown Cheat Sheet

R Markdown is an authoring format that makes it easy to write reusable reports with R. You combine your R code with narration written in markdown (an easy-to-write plain text format) and then export the results as an html, pdf, or Word file. You can even use R Markdown to build interactive documents and slideshows. Updated 02/16. (Old Version).

RStudio IDE Cheat Sheet

The RStudio IDE is the most popular integrated development environment for R. Do you want to write, run, and debug your own R code? Work collaboratively on R projects with version control? Build packages or create documents and apps? No matter what you do with R, the RStudio IDE can help you do it faster. This cheat sheet will guide you through the most useful features of the IDE, as well as the long list of keyboard shortcuts built into the RStudio IDE. Updated 01/16.

Shiny Cheat Sheet

If you’re ready to build interactive web apps with R, say hello to Shiny. This cheat sheet provides a tour of the Shiny package and explains how to build and customize an interactive app. Be sure to follow the links on the sheet for even more information. Updated 01/16.

Data Visualization Cheat Sheet

The ggplot2 package lets you make beautiful and customizable plots of your data. It implements the grammar of graphics, an easy to use system for building plots. See docs.ggplot2.org for detailed examples. Updated 11/16.

Package Development Cheat Sheet

The devtools package makes it easy to build your own R packages, and packages make it easy to share your R code. Supplement this cheat sheet with r-pkgs.had.co.nz, Hadley’s book on package development. Updated 01/15.

R Markdown Reference Guide

R Markdown marries together three pieces of software: markdown, knitr, and pandoc. This five page guide lists each of the options from markdown, knitr, and pandoc that you can use to customize your R Markdown documents. Updated 10/14.